Improved hammer-strap for wagons



C. BROWN. Tongue Support.

Patented. May124; 1870.

N. PErERS. FHOT Tfinited Sindee aunt dtyijiine.

CHARLES BROWN, 0F ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND AARON G. SALMON, .OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 103,421, dated May 24,1870 antedatelZ May B, 1870.

IMPROVED HAMMER-STRAP FOR WAG-ONS- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the si n 1e. A

- of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Objects of. the Invention.

The nature of my-invention consists in providing wagon-tongues with an adjustable combined wrench and hammer-strap, so constructed that it may be readily detached from the wagon, as a hammer-strap, and be used as a wrench for turning any-sized nut about the wagon.

Figure 1 is a vertical view of one of my adjustable hammer-straps attached to the wagon-tongue A and doubltree B, in the manner in which the same is de-- signed to be used. 1

Figure 2 represents a verticallongitudinal section, cutting the line X Y in fig. 1.

A is the tongue of 'the wagon.

B, the double-tree.

O, the draw-plate.

D, the adjustable hannncr-strap and wrench combined.

S and are the openings that constitute the wrench.

E is the double-tree bolt.

This adjustable hammer-strap and wrench Dis cast of malleable iron, with a tapering slot, S, near the rear end, to turn the different sizes of nuts about the wagon, and at the other end asquare hole, S, through a portion thrown downward at the extremity of the shank'i, so as to reach the nut within the band on thehub of the wheel.

c is a .foot, turned backward at the lower end of the offset h, at the rear end of the strap D.

This ofi'set h passes downward through theopening made in the draw-plate O, and then turns backward,

running under the draw-plate O, as represented in" The hammer-strap D is readily detached from the tongue, when desirable, by first drawing the doubletree bolt E, and then elevating the forward end of the strap high enough to allow the foot 0 to draw out of its seat in under the draw-plate O; and by reversing the process it may be replaced in position for use.

Claim.

I claim .as my invention The combined hammer-strap and wrench D, with the offset h and footc, to be used in connection with the draw-plate O, constructed in the manner and for the purposes set forth and described. 7

CHARLES BROWN. Witnesses:

M. E. STEWART, J E. .TooKnR. 

